The Sedo .ai domain name auction wrapped up today. There were no big sales as the greatest names just had reserve ranges much too high for investors. There are currently two auctions still going, Asmr.ai and Czar.ai. ASMR.ai looks like it will be the top sale if paid as it’s currently at $5,100. Update it closed at $6601 and Czar.ai closed at $1,650.
The high reserves just make little sense as the auction participants are mostly domain name investors. A friend said to me earlier today that he sees the expired auctions at whois.ai and now Dynadot get some great prices, why not Sedo? I think the number one thing that stands out is no reserve at those auctions.
You eliminate bidders immediately with a reserve, plenty of domainers will not participate in a reserve auction. There is something psychologically different in seeing someone have a $100K to $249,999K reserve and getting caught up in a good old fashioned bidding war. Plus those reserve ranges are too wide. There is a big difference in me dropping $100K on a name and close to a quarter of a million.
No reserve auctions are where it’s at but most will never risk their best digital assets with no reserve.
| 4k.ai | 2,436 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| teenagers.ai | 1,081 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| synch.ai | 1,050 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| oma.ai | 900 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| pto.ai | 700 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| electricvehicles.ai | 540 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| mme.ai | 499 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| deportes.ai | 494 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| lub.ai | 349 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| lbn.ai | 349 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| counsellors.ai | 272 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| servicio.ai | 225 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| slowmotion.ai | 211 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| xportal.ai | 199 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| rankd.ai | 187 USD | 2024-03-28 | Namecheap |
| editphoto.ai | 169 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| hqb.ai | 160 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| etickets.ai | 158 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| 3dprinters.ai | 146 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| financetech.ai | 125 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| entrain.ai | 109 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| highvoltage.ai | 109 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| ziro.ai | 109 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| spammer.ai | 109 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
| smartdrugs.ai | 107 USD | 2024-03-28 | Sedo |
Embarrassing sales prices. People picked bargains for the lll names. I submitted far better one word names and they rejected them. Sedo does not understand the market any longer. Glad they didn’t pick my names now.
Because I believe many domains selected there are applied by friends and relatives of some of their employees.
Hi Bruce same here they rejected many of my names such as happen.ai. Dildo.ai penis.ai. And bigboobs.ai
Nice beard Bruce looks sharp
Bruce,
I concur
They had maybe 7 excellent .ai domains in the SEDO auction (albeit set at very high reserves)
But at least 200 were really mediocre
SEDO has an excellent brokerage team and marketplace, but it needs to amp its auction platform/team
i have had the same results from SEDO over the years. I propose some of my best names; they reject them and then I see these weak names included in their auction. I thought maybe SEDO owns the weak ones they include in their own auction.
Thank you for posting I agree with the above commenter that these are horrible results what’s going on in this business?
I believe you missed quite a few sales here, or did your list get cut short? I thought a bunch went for $99.
Always stick to the $100 or more, sales under $100 go to a different part of Namebio. I mean $99 is not even the registration fee.
Those are garbage names at garbage prices?
How is it possible for Sedo to reject good names and allow those?
Typo:
Did not mean to add question mark with first statement.
That is:
Those are garbage names at garbage prices. Period.
and yes, I agree with you, Raymond …. the expired .ai auction gets better results…. and they do little marketing and you have to put money into your account to even bid
I think that’s mostly because of no reserve Steve. Coupled with those who do not and will not put money in another domainer’s pocket when they are buying for investment, they rather give it to a registry, registrar or the country of Anguilla.
Yes, all good points, Raymond
At least now I don’t feel so bad about how strangely they rejected my really very good and strong one. It’s good to know this is a widespread phenomenon they do to a lot of people vs. the worse alternative.
I guess Sedo just hates money and profit.
One thing to add to that, however: it’s 100% unacceptable for them to give you some BS form statement about how your name is being rejected due to lack or quality or some nonsense like that when it’s clearly FAR better than this total junk garbage that sold.
That’s called dishonest, among other things. The name I submitted even has the better part of a *billion* exact match entries on G.